Sunday, November 12th, 2017
Well, it happened! Last Wednesday and Thursday, the ASBMB UMD Student Affiliates Chapter hosted its first ever science demonstration with the kids of the College Park Scholars Lakeland STARs program. For two days, the first wing first floor of the chemistry building saw an unexpected overflow of children in attendance for a series of six experiments. Donned in their own kid science goggles, a total of sixty boys and girls tested the effects of density in making their own take-home lava lamps, performed DNA extraction to figure out what makes a banana a banana, and did much more. It was exhausting, thrilling, and invaluable to say the least. We hope that this will be the start of a semesterly involvement of our chapter in reaching the College Park community through promoting an interest for the sciences among children. An enormous thanks are due to all those who helped from as early on as brainstorming during GBM2 to the tidying up of lab rooms 1105, 1106, and 1110 on Thursday evening.
Who likes playdough? Me!!! Let's make them from shampoo and starch! The cleaning team. The whole room smells awesome thanks to those scented shampoo. There will be a general body meeting (GBM) this Thursday, November 16th at 6 PM in CHM1402. To track your attendance at our GBMs and volunteering events, please see here (Links to an external site.).
